[Fwd: Re: 32-port gigabit switch]

[Gerry Creager]

One just can't generalize about all GBE switches.  There are some that 
are high throughput (Anritsu/NEC, small-port-count-Cisco) and others 
where latency is non-trivial (HP comes to mind from those I've tested...).

gerry

Justin Moore wrote:
>>Additionally the latency on Gigabit is simply to high for large
>>clusters.  Remember on clusters latency is more important than
>>throughput.
> 
> 
>    Be careful ... I think I hear Rob Brown furiously typing up an "it
> depends" response (and I'm a few buildings away).  You shouldn't say
> these kinds of things on the beowulf list unless your mail server is
> ready to be "rgb-dot'ed". :)
> 
> [ clickity click click clickity click ... ]
> 
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